1911 – Chinese Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)
1937 – Brazilian dictator Getulio Vargas proclaims “Estado novo”
1944 – Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
1960 – Uncensored version of D. H. Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” finally goes on sale in the UK after a jury finds publisher Penguin Books not guilty in an obscenity trial
1969 – “Sesame Street” premieres on PBS TV
1971 – US table tennis team arrived in China
1974 – Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0
1978 – Israel’s top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1990 – John Hughes’ film “Home Alone” directed by Chris Columbus and starring Macaulay Culkin premieres in Chicago
2017 – BBC removes drama from Christmas line-up after one of its stars, Ed Westwick, accused of rape by two women
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 9th November 2019
1720 – Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire
1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1842 – The first U.S. design patent for typefaces and borders was issued to George Bruce of New York City
1862 – US General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1864 – 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, British Columbia to a foreign country
1864 – Sherman issues preliminary plans for his “March to the Sea”
1927 – Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars and motors
1984 – Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1990 – Tanzania government of Malecela forms
2015 – World Anti-Doping Agency commission report recommends Russian Federation be banned from athletics competitions for running a “state-supported” doping programme
Historical Events for 8th November 2019
1926 – George Gershwin’s musical “Oh, Kay” premieres in NYC
1959 – KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1965 – Vietnam War: US, Australian and New Zealand forces launch Operation Hump, a search-and-destroy operation near Bien Hoa in South Vietnam
1968 – Londonderry Corporation agreed to a Nationalist request to introduce a points system in the allocation of public sector housing in Northern Ireland
1974 – British peer the Earl of Lucan disappears and is never seen again after his nanny is found murdered in London
1975 – Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1989 – “Byker Grove” begins broadcasting on the BBC
1992 – “Solitary Confinement” opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 25 performances
1994 – Haitian government of Smarck Michel forms
2016 – Indian PM Narendra Modi announces the demonetization of all ₹500 and ₹1,000 banknotes during an unscheduled live televised address, canceling 86% of the notes in circulation in a battle against corruption
Historical Events for 7th November 2019
1651 – King Louis XIV of France (13) declared of full age
1934 – Arthur L. Mitchell, becomes first African American Democratic US congressman (Illinois)
1953 – WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1968 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1978 – Marion Barry Jr. elected as Washington, D.C.’s first African American mayor
1983 – Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
1989 – Balt’s Gregg Olson is 1st relief pitcher to win AL Rookie of Year
2000 – “TP-2.com” 4th studio album by R. Kelly is released (American Music Awards Favorite Male Soul/RandB Artist 2001, Billboard Album of the Year 2001)
2000 – Hillary Clinton is elected to the US Senate, becoming first US First Lady to win public office and while still the First Lady
2018 – US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appoints Matthew Whitaker in his place as acting Attorney General
Historical Events for 6th November 2019
1860 – Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President
1941 – Einsatz Gruppe kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
1945 – House Committee on Un-American Activities begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
1958 – AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
1964 – WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 – Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award
1981 – Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award
1994 – 24th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:27:37
1999 – Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
2018 – Colorado elects Jared Polis, the country’s first openly male gay governor
Historical Events for 5th November 2019
1414 – Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens
1922 – Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent
1938 – Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return
1956 – Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh, reopening Gulf of Aqaba
1956 – Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
1967 – New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24
1976 – Balt Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award
1976 – USSR performs nuclear test
1985 – “News” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 4 performances
2017 – Bodies of 26 migrant teenage girls recovered from the Mediterranean, another 400 migrants rescued
Historical Events for 4th November 2019
1646 – Massachusetts uses death penalty for denying that Holy Bible is God’s word
1862 – Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis
1911 – France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco and Congo
1933 – Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young
1966 – Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
1968 – “Wichita Lineman” 12th album by Glen Campbell is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1969)
1978 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 – “Edge of Darkness” first airs on BBC Two, featuring Bob Peck and Joanne Whalley
1992 – NY Jets announce they are moving from WABC to WFAN radio
2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress
Historical Events for 3rd November 2019
1812 – Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma
1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T
1927 – Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley, Vermont
1944 – US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1970 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson wins his second NL Cy Young Award (23-7 record, 274 strikeouts and 3.12 ERA
1970 – Marxist Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile
1980 – Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland A’s
1998 – “400 Degreez” 3rd studio album by Juvenile is released (Billboard no. 1 year end Top RandB/Hip Hop Albums 1999)
2012 – Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase
Historical Events for 2nd November 2019
1327 – King Alfonso IV of Aragon crowned
1922 – Allies deliberate over German mark
1953 – Pakistan becomes islamic republic
1954 – Charles Diggs Jr is elected Michigan’s 1st black congressman to the House of Representatives
1954 – Strom Thurmond is the 1st senator elected by write-in vote (South Carolina)
1983 – Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle
1987 – Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
1993 – First commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial
2012 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Santa Anita Racetrack; Day 1 winners: Hightail, Calidoscopio, Flotilla, Beholder, Zagora, Royal Delta
2015 – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull scraps Knights and Dames from Australia’s honours system
Historical Events for 1st November 2019
1628 – French King Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle
1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars
1848 – Classes begin at Boston Female Medical College, 1st US female medical college
1869 – Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra
1913 – Less than a week after the US non-intervention promise, President Woodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns
1950 – Celtics’ forward Chuck Cooper becomes first African American to play in the NBA in Boston’s 107-84 loss at Fort Wayne Pistons; future Hall of Famer Bob Cousy also debuts for Celtics
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1966 – NFL awards a franchise to New Orleans; name “Saints” alludes to November 1, All Saints Day in Catholic faith
1988 – Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones
2012 – 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space